I highly recommend the work of Free Press. The answer to the question in the title of this post (from the Free Press FAQ page) is that our massive dysfunction of our media is not caused by malicious or incompetent individuals: There may well be media owners who are especially…
Commuting the sentence of Scooter Libby was just the latest of many pressing reasons, it's not the most serious reason. Here's a discussion of additional, more serious, reasons for impeaching Bush and Cheney immediately. Visit the website of Bill Moyer's Journal and click on "Watch Video." Why impeachment? It's a…
Members of the U.S. military are now speaking up, as documented by DemocracyNow. This set of interviews by DemocracyNow was provoked by a recent article by The Nation. Here's how DemocracyNow describes that article, entitled "The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness": The Nation has published a startling new expose…
I raised this question at a recent family gathering, because I see it as my role to raise such questions: Assume that you're living alone. How often should you clean the drinking cup you use in at your bathroom sink? The first answer came from a brother-in-law who cautiously answered…
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)